Re: [Devil-linux-develop] vote on website --> diff't DL's via diff't builds

[John v. V. <joh...@ya...>]

Hi, I would like to voice my opinion that DL should distribute ~build kits~ as
well as ISOs.

It has become obivous from our own democratic process that DL will have
difficulty fulfilling every application that it is put to.

We ~actually~ want to run a desktop from the CD... hence my interest in TinyX
and similar X servers. 
http://puny.vm.com/cgi-bin/Depth/?depth=PerlOS%20GUIs%20

Other options not supported... wallet sized CD, the ethernet detection we
referred to.  Howabout PPC, Sparc boxes... even something like a gaming box, or
my ultimate goal, the cell phone.

(Our ThinMan would only want to boot, find the way out and make an ssh
connection to the FAT server.  Then it would ~receive~ necessary server
packages to start doing its job.  A FAT is an emitter, the ThinMan, once
configured becomes a mini-FAT.)

Documentation would also be made easier if the educational types like myself
would be able to step through the entire process and give blow by blow details
for the internal workings.  This would make DL very popular in schools.

And Finally... I was on board for tri-nux, and Franz, the lead, could be a huge
help if it were made easy for him. (marriage vrs trinux ;)

Just my 0.02 $USD

John



--- Heiko Zuerker <hz...@pr...> wrote:
> 
> On 03/15/2002 05:51:02 AM Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> >On Thu, 14 Mar 2002 19:26, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> >
> >> we currently have an important vote on our website
> >> http://www.devil-linux.org .
> >>
> >> I wanna know if we should switch to i586 code, because this would
> >have a
> >> lot of advantages.
> >
> >Hi!
> >
> >How about making this an option for "menuconfig"?
> >eg.
> >  ( ) i486
> >  ( ) i586
> >  ( ) i686
> >  ( ) AMD Athlon/Duron
> >  ( ) Intel P4
> >
> >I'd would prefere to compile for AMD Athlon/Duron because all machines
> >I install are equipped with those CPUs.
> 
> The problem is more, that the underlying LFS system also needs to be
> compiled in the right way.
> The most critical stuff is glibc and gcc, but we could compile and install
> them on our own.
> We also have to get rid of copying any binaries from the LFS system,
> because they would be for the wrong CPU. But thats not a big deal, because
> we just have to add the stuff to our current build system.
> This would solve the issue with the LFS system.
> 
> cu
>   Heiko
> 
> 
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